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Rudo Kwaramba, World Vision mentor, featured in the series
World Vision
www.worldvision.org.uk
World Vision is a Christian, international relief, development and advocacy organisation which works with the world's poorest children and empowers communities to tackle poverty and the causes of poverty. World Vision connects people to fight poverty, linking its supporters to beneficiaries through its global partnership, providing opportunities for people to become involved and to actually see and feel the difference they are making to the lives of children. World Vision has more of its own staff operational on the ground than any other international development NGO, with over 24,000 staff working in 100 countries around the world, 97% of whom are working in their countries of origin.
Video and audio links
- Listen to Rudo Kwaramba talk about Millionaires Mission
- Julius Mucunguzi talks about his home parish Rukiga
Investment and microfinance
4Money: Investing
www.channel4.com/money/investing/
4Money's investment section, covering a host of investing topics including a guide to offshore investment
Make Your Mark with a Tenner
www.makeyourmark.org.uk/get_involved/mym_with_a_tenner
Read about the thousands of young people who took part in a competition in which they were given £10 and a month to generate as much profit and social impact as they could.
Kiva
www.kiva.org/
'Loans that change lives'. Kiva puts lenders in touch with specific entrepreneurs in the developing world. Regularly updated website featuring small businesses in Africa and elsewhere in need of financial help
CAMA - The Campaign for Female Education Association
www.camfed.org/html/cama.html
(see also CAMFED under 'Education', below) is a pan-African organization of young, educated, rural women. Supported by an international NGO with offices in Zambia, Zimbabwe, UK and USA, CAMA is active in micro-finance as well as health, mentoring and human rights initiatives.
Startups
www.startups.co.uk/home.aspx
Online news and information on starting and running a business for new and established entrepreneurs - from the very first steps to taking on staff and beyond.
Networks and mentoring
i-genius
www.i-genius.org/home/
Formally known as Africa Bookcase. I-genius is a world community of social entrepreneurs seeking to inspire a new generation of social innovators, social business and social enterprise to drive change (see also under 'Education').
Afford - African Foundation for Development
www.afford-uk.org/
Supporting the African diaspora in the UK to contribute to wealth and job creation in Africa. Promotes the idea that Africans can and should learn from each other.
CAHNET, Community Animal Health Network
www.cah-net.net
Establishes links between researchers and African farmers using direct contact via national offices along with podcasts and vidcasts
Mo Ibrahim Foundation
www.moibrahimfoundation.org/
'Nothing, simply nothing, is more important for Africa than good governance' - Dr. Mo Ibrahim. Following the lead of the Sudanese-born, British mobile communications entrepreneur, the foundation supports African development, with a special focus on promoting good governance in sub-Saharan Africa.
FARM Africa
www.farmafrica.org.uk/programmes.cfm
80 percent of Africans make their living out of farming. FARM Africa provides 'a hand up not a handout', aiming to reduce poverty by enabling farmers and herders to make sustainable improvements through more effective management of their renewable natural resources.
Technology
Computers for Africa
www.computers4africa.org/
There are only six computers per 1000 people in East Africa. Through financial support and donations of computer hardware and other services, CFA promotes the development of sustainable information and communications technology in rural African communities.
Maendeleo Agricultural Technology Fund
www.maendeleo-atf.org/
Aims to improve the livelihoods of farming communities in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda by providing competitive grants to projects. MATF particularly promotes the transfer and adoption of new agricultural technologies aimed at increasing the productivity of smallholder farmers.
The African Technology Development Forum
www.atdforum.org/
With offices in Africa and Europe, ATDF supports inventors, business bureaus and technology transfer agents. ATDF promotes the formation of partnerships between businesses and entrepreneurs and makes links between research centers, industry and government
Global Voices
www.globalvoicesonline.org/author/ndesanjo-macha/
Global Voices uses blogging technology to share information worldwide not normally covered by more mainstream media. Sub-Saharan Africa regional editor, Ndesanjo Macha particularly promotes the development of information communications technology to address poverty and development in Africa.
Practical Action
http://practicalaction.org/
Practical Action works with poor communities to help them choose and use technology to improve their lives.
Education
Mission Gap Year Competition:
Can your ideas change the world?
www.i-to-i.com/mission-gap
Create a top business idea that will generate income and employment in the developing world. Open to 16-18 year olds, you'll need to come up with a great idea for small business and be able to demonstrate an understanding of development issues. Your prize: an all expenses paid four week trip and £500 to set up your business overseas. Go to: www.i-to-i.com/mission-gap for entry information and a teachers' resource pack.
Origination
www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/O/origination/
Channel 4's Origination website brings together the wealth of web resources recording and celebrating the contributions of immigrant cultures to contemporary Britain.
NFTE - Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship
www.nfte.com/
Organization founded in the USA with partners worldwide. Through entrepreneurship education, NFTE helps young people from low-income communities build skills and unlock their entrepreneurial creativity
CAMFED International - The Campaign for Female Education
www.camfed.org/index.html
International NGO with offices in Zambia, Zimbabwe, UK and USA, dedicated to fighting poverty and AIDS in rural communities in Africa by bringing education to girls.
Gemin-i.org
www.gemin-i.org/
Using innovative web-based solutions this UK charity helps children and young people around the world talk to each other about issues that are important to them. In doing so they break down cultural, religious and social barriers. Its online community, Rafi.ki enables schools worldwide to work with each other
Volunteering
Volunteer Holidays at the Teach INN Uganda
www.teachinnuganda.com
www.i-to-i.com/uganda
Do something exciting and worthwhile on your gap year or next holiday. People of all ages welcome to teach English (training provided), coach sport or be a school mentor for schools shown in the Millionaires' Mission programme. Taste the real Africa and go to southern Uganda, a stone's throw from the gorillas and close enough to a local town to get to the internet. Four weeks minimum, training, support and airport transfer provided. No experience necessary.
4Money: Working Abroad
www.channel4.com/money/feature.jsp?pageParam=6&id=39
Everything you need to know about working overseas
Worldwide Volunteering
www.wwv.org.uk/
A 'search and match' database with over 1,450 volunteer organisations and over a million placements throughout the UK and in 214 countries worldwide. Includes listings of volunteer organizations and reports from volunteers worldwide
VSO - Voluntary Service overseas
www.vso.org.uk
International development charity fighting against poverty and working for development in Africa and other developing countries for half a century. Volunteers - aged between 18 and 75 years - pass on expertise to local people so that when they return home their skills remain. Volunteers must have a formal qualification and some work experience.
Student Partnerships Worldwide
www.spw.org/index.php
Recruits and trains 18-28 year olds to serve as volunteer peer educators living full-time in rural communities for 7-9 months, and leading health, environmental and education programmes in sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia.
Volunteer Africa
www.volunteerafrica.org
International voluntary organization established to give people from around the world the opportunity to work on community initiated projects in developing African countries. Website includes links to many other organizations offering volunteering opportunities in Africa.
Mission Direct
www.missiondirect.org
A Christian charity enabling mission volunteers to travel and bring practical help and spiritual hope to those in desperate need. All ages and no special skills required.
Donation
Giving To Charity
www.channel4.com/money/feature.jsp?id=310
Easy ways to give money without stopping to put coppers into a rattling tin: advice on intelligently choosing a good cause and focusing donations from 4Money
Alternative Christmas
www.channel4.com/money/feature.jsp?id=503
Some suggestions and real-life examples from 4Money for doing the festive season a little differently this year.
World Vision
www.worldvision.org.uk/
Working to make a sustainable impact on poverty and its causes - especially as they affect children - through donations, advocacy, campaigns, church and corporate group activity, sponsorship and alternative gifts
ACT - African Child Trust
www.africanchildtrust.org.uk/
UK charity raising money through funbdraising events and donations to provide funding for schooling in countries where access to education is not free or affordable. ACT supports widows and children in Zambia, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Uganda and Tanzania.
Farm Friends
www.farmfriends.org.uk/
Works to provide a better future for rural African communities. Projects include providing animals to rural people so they have essential products like milk and eggs to improve nutrition. Any surplus can be sold to boost the family's income.
Send a Cow
www.sendacowgifts.org.uk/default.asp
Website gift catalogue of alternative presents to give direct, practical help to African families trapped in poverty.
SOS Children
www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk
The world's largest orphan and abandoned children charity. The charity's main role is helping children whose parents are not there for them: Aids orphans, street children, child soldiers and children orphaned by war, poverty or natural disasters. In places where there is a high rate of child abandonment, they run programmes to help strengthen vulnerable families and keep them together.
